Friday, April 15, 2011

4/15/2011 Got my Central Line taken out - Good Day

Today was a good day, I'm a little sore, but that's a good thing considering. I had an appointment this morning and thanks to the water Nazi's Patty and Amanda I drank plenty of water so my kidneys worked very well and my blood tests let them take out my Central Line.

The sore part is that I didn't know it before today, but about one half inch under my skin the Central Line has a raised cup around it that keeps it from pulling out and it's the only part of the line that forms any kind of a binding with your skin, so they have to dig around the line and open up your skin to get it loose enough to pull the rest of the line out. Once the cup is free the rest of the line slides right out and I got to see the working end of the Central Line, that was pretty interesting.

It didn't hurt at all to get the line taken out since they gave me plenty of local anesthesia on the surface where the line entered and since it was local, I was awake and alert and was able to see the whole process, which at first I wasn't sure I wanted to see, but as it turned out, it was pretty cool to see and experience, but a couple hours later as the local started to wear off, it became a little sore to the feel and the touch (it is under a bandage) as the doctor had to dig around and cut things apart. I will get to see it tomorrow evening when I change the bandage on it.

The other thing that made it a good day is we set up an appointment for next Monday with Dr. Petersen to talk about letting me head for home. I hope everything goes well with that appointment, we'll have to stop in St. George for a couple of days since they will release me back to Dr. Te in St. George and I'll have an appointment with him before I'm totally released, so it could be the first of the following week or more before we make it back to Vegas.

I'll have to come back to Salt Lake in a few weeks to see how my stem cells are responding and how they are battling the MM (bad stuff), hopefully things are working well.

I'll post again next week after we know more about what is actually going on with us. Hope everyone is doing well and we'll talk to all of you soon. We'll be putting Amanda on the plane tomorrow, it was nice she could come up. We got some other good news last night after seeing Daniel's post on facebook, that was very good news for Daniel, Kim and the family.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks Uncle Bart! We love, respect and admire you a lot. To be honest I cringe just to hear about how the Central Line attaches to the body, specially since Kim's explanation was pretty graphic. Gosh I wish I was that strong, we hope to see you soon and maybe enjoy some Mexican cuisine which by the way my colon doesn't appreciate anymore!

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